Rue-David Military Cemetery

France / Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Fleurbaix /
 cemetery, First World War 1914-1918
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"Rue-David" (or "Rue-des-Davids") is the local name of the road running between La Croix-Marechal and La Boutillerie. The cemetery was begun by the 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers in December 1914 and closed to Commonwealth burials in December 1917. At the Armistice it comprised Rows A to F and part of G of the present Plot I and contained 220 graves. The cemetery was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when graves were brought in mainly from the neighbourhood of Aubers and Fromelles, including those of many of the 1st Middlesex who died at the end of October 1914, and of the 5th Australian and 61st (South Midland) Divisions who died in July 1916.

Casualty Details: UK 472, Canada 10, Australia 353, New Zealand 18, India 44, Germany 10, Total Burials: 997
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Coordinates:   50°38'13"N   2°51'8"E

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  • Visited here in April 2004 to visit grave of my Great Grandfather. Very moving seeing all the graves and how old the soldiers were. I was very impressed with how the cemetery was maintained - and so they should be maintained at a very high standard. It is the very least we can do now.
  • My wife and myself taking photographs for the BCWGPP came apon Rue David by chance,having recently visited VC Corner and learned about the problem burying the Australians there amounted to the wall-memorial because all the dog-tags of these men had been taken by Austalian command from the dead. Walking along the rows of stones in Rue David I was again sad to see so many Australian buried with no name, was this again the result of the lack of dog tags on reburial? It is always such sadness to see our commonwealth mens' stones and so many Ausies here. My undying love for those we push aside for European togetherness.
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